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Ex-aide's book paints harsh Palin portrait
Politico,com ^ | 2/22/11 | Ben Smith/Andy Barr

Posted on 02/22/2011 4:13:45 AM PST by K-Stater

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To: samtheman
It's either too dull to sell, or else the publishers suspect that a great deal of it is less than entirely truthful.

The only part I read was the purported email about the story that Track was not Todd's son. I would have been a touch peeved, myself, in her place.

As others have pointed out before me, it seems that an inordinate amount of the attention focused on Mrs. Palin and her family seems to be rather sex-obsessed. It's all rather unsavory and juvenile from my point of view.

21 posted on 02/22/2011 5:15:04 AM PST by susannah59
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To: LibLieSlayer

You need to also “hate” Huckabee for covering up his son torturing and killing a dog when he was about 17.


22 posted on 02/22/2011 5:22:09 AM PST by imfrmdixie (I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves. Ronald Reagan)
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To: K-Stater
portray Palin as nearly obsessed with her political adversaries and consumed with every slight, real or perceived.

Sounds like just the one to crush our enemies, see them driven before her, and listen to the lamentations of their women.

Ineluctable.

23 posted on 02/22/2011 5:25:25 AM PST by Jim Noble (House GOP: If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.)
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To: K-Stater
consumed with every slight, real or perceived

That is so inconsistent with her public persona. It is very in keeping with those of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama who expect to be loved by everyone.

24 posted on 02/22/2011 5:29:37 AM PST by jimfree (In 2012 Sarah Palin will continue to have more relevant quality executive experience than B. Obama.)
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To: K-Stater

This book will be good for Sarah, and good for the country. She needs to practice and scrimmage and play some more pre-season games. She’s barely more experienced that the current miserable unpresidential failure, if yer askin’ me. Her response(s) will tell us more about her.

“It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.” -that idiot Biden, 20 October ‘08


25 posted on 02/22/2011 5:32:55 AM PST by flowerplough (Thomas Sowell: Those who look only at Obama's deeds tend to become Obama's critics.)
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To: Jim Noble
Sounds like just the one to crush our enemies, see them driven before her, and listen to the lamentations of their women. Ineluctable.

Indeed. Hee hee heee.

26 posted on 02/22/2011 5:34:24 AM PST by paulycy (Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: K-Stater

The media can find e-mails, you tube videos,comments, college grades,a BIRTH CERTIFICATE or any remark ever uttered by Sarah Palin and will publicly air them with the obligatory 2 hour news analysis from talking heads on MSNBC/CNN etc.

Yet, the same media are very quiet about President Obama’s past.

Isn’t it ironic??


27 posted on 02/22/2011 5:35:46 AM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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To: NoControllingLegalAuthority

Yeah, they’re always trying for the next attack. Astounding they find so much to attack Palin and don’t want to discuss the negative with Obama and the other Demonrats. No agenda there, right?! They are a joke and just have nothing else and this is not going to stop her or slow her down. The media is digging their grave.


28 posted on 02/22/2011 6:07:20 AM PST by mrspeelwerneeded (m)
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To: K-Stater
Consider the sources.

The author, Frank Bailey is described as "“the quintessential disgruntled employee” who had been denied senior jobs he sought, cut out of Palin’s vice presidential campaign, and been caught up in the “Troopergate” scandal.

Now there's an unimpeachable source, for you. And as for Bailey's "co-authors": Jeanne Devon is the publisher of an anti-Palin website (Mudflats), and a hardcore Leftist blogger who writes for both the Nation and The Huffington Post.

Ken Morris is a vicious Palin critic, as well as a former silver-spoon investment bank scumbag, who is now a full-blown left-wing "Progressive".

I myself am not the world's biggest Palin supporter, but she and her family deserve a lot better than this sort of garbage.

29 posted on 02/22/2011 6:24:07 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: imfrmdixie

“You need to also “hate” Huckabee for covering up his son torturing and killing a dog when he was about 17.”

I did find it interesting that in early 2008, Palin was supporting Huckabee, according to these emails.


30 posted on 02/22/2011 6:36:42 AM PST by Hawk720
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To: imfrmdixie
I despise huck... and I despise mitt... I should not have used “hate”... I know that hate is wrong... but despising someone is a natural human condition when one’s morals are offended... I despise huck for that and a thousand other things.

LLS

31 posted on 02/22/2011 6:38:32 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!!!)
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To: susannah59
unsavory and juvenile
The MSM in a nutshell.
32 posted on 02/22/2011 6:49:55 AM PST by samtheman
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To: K-Stater

Just noticed:

Ben Smith/Andy Barr

Wow. It takes 2 of these geniuses to fabricate this hit-piece.

Did they take adequate hug-breaks while working on this together?


33 posted on 02/22/2011 6:57:43 AM PST by samtheman
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To: K-Stater

I admit I didn’t read the entire article.

But if this were true, she never would have hooked up with crooked McCain because this is going to dog her should she run for president.


34 posted on 02/22/2011 7:17:23 AM PST by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: K-Stater
next to impossible.

Absolutely....libel cases are hard in general, and she is a Very public figure so the very notion of suing is ridiculous. Unauthorized biographies are so common in America, I am surprised people even think suing is an option.
35 posted on 02/22/2011 9:24:04 AM PST by kroll
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To: WVKayaker

I like your approach. Maybe I’ll get a bumper sticker: “Re-Elect Palin in 2016”


36 posted on 02/22/2011 9:24:08 AM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: jimfree
consumed with every slight, real or perceived ... That is so inconsistent with her public persona.

Not true. It's quite consistent with her public persona. One of Palin's problems is precisely that she responds to things that are better left alone, and as a result she prolongs them.

Case in point: Last fall she had made an embarrassing slip of the tongue concerning Korea, and was made fun of. Well, that's the price of being a politician -- reporters look for good gaffes, and they report on them.

Most people's moms taught them early on that the right response is to smile, nod, acknowledge the misstatement, correct the record, and move on.

Instead, we're treated to her embarrassing Message to All 57 States posting on Facebook -- an immature diatribe, the main effect of which was a signal to the media that all they have to do, is make fun of her and they'll get a response.

37 posted on 02/22/2011 10:20:03 AM PST by r9etb
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To: K-Stater
And these emails somehow managed to stay hidden over the last couple of years, when the press and her opposition was baying at the moon, and hunting for just this sort of stuff.

Riiiiight.

Some people here really are willing to believe anything bad about her, no matter how absurd.

38 posted on 02/22/2011 10:29:34 AM PST by RichInOC (Palin 2012: BOOM. Taste My Cluebat!)
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To: K-Stater

Sarah Palin thinks that she has enemies? She must be delusional, surely. Bob


39 posted on 02/22/2011 11:42:48 AM PST by alstewartfan ("He's only come to bring another perfect dream." Al Stewart from "Shah of Shahs")
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To: Taliesan
Sarah hates all media other than Fox? Shocking!!!!!

It may not be shocking, but if true it would disqualify her from being President.

40 posted on 02/22/2011 12:26:41 PM PST by drubyfive
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